Photobucket Problems?

[Jessika]

Here's your answer, guys, to why you're having problems.

http://blog.photobucket.com

October 06, 2005
Photobucket Network Update

If you didn't know, yesterday two Tier 1 providers got into a feud and cut off traffic to eachothers network.

Read article here

Unfortunately Photobucket was one of the thousands of sites effected. We have talked with both Cogent and Level 3, but it doesn't look like it will be fixed anytime soon. Rather than sit back and wait for it to all get sorted out, we have taken some drastic steps to work towards our own resolution.

- Overnighted some additional network equipment as of yesterday
- Moved our dns over to Ultradns (which is used by amazon, myspace, etc) . This gives us some flexibility on how we handle traffic from the two networks.
- Working frantically on bringing up another carrier so we can start pushing 'non-resolvable' traffic that direction.

We believe this will solve many or all of the issues regardless of what happens with Cogent and Level 3.

Thanks for understanding, Photobucket got the worst of a bad situation that is totally out of our control.

Alex

October 05, 2005
Network Issue

It appears there is a peering issue with some of the network providers. We are looking into this.

http://scoreboard.keynote.com/scoreb...assword=public

We'll keep you posted.

Alex

So they changed their DNS and it could take 72 hours for changes to take effect... exactly what I've been saying all along xD

[aly]

Thanks Jessika, that was very helpful to know. I was really wanting to read that, but can't access the forums either. So thanks for posting!

[Jessika]

Well that's posted on their "blog", not on the support forums and I didn't find it until after I posted that stuff about the forums hehe.

[aly]

Well, same thing because I can't access the blog either

[Jessika]

Well I assumed nobody would be able to access that, either, since its on the same domain the main site is on, that's why I quoted the two blogs talking bout the problem and posted the link as a source :P

I hope they get it fixed though, I'm just glad I don't use photobucket to host my pictures

[anna_66]

Jessika, thanks so much for taking the time to find and post this for us all to see. Not necessarily that I totally understand it, but it's nice to see it in black & white
Don't think I'll be using them anymore since you turned me onto zoto..thanks!

[Jessika]

Oh its not a problem... I figured I could access the site so it was only fair to those of you who couldn't!!

And isn't zoto GREAT? <3